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Automatically apply patches from Django's (or any) Trac

2009 February 28

Lately I've been delving into Django development a bit more, and applying people's patches has been a bit of a hassle. You know you want to apply someones patch, but there are about five steps in between you and applying their patch to your source tree.

So I ...

Incredibly useful SSH flag

2009 February 15

So at work we have a lot of different django environments, scattered across varies servers. All of this information is kept in a central resource. We have the pythonpath, settings file, and the remote server that the client is on. So every time that I want to go do work ...

The problem with Django's Template Tags

2008 November 08

There are a lot of things that I love about Django. Template tags are one of them. However, they do have a couple of warts that bother me. I know that there's a problem when I actively look for another way to accomplish something instead of writing a template ...

Python gems of my own

2008 November 03

Note: I'm launching a redesign today to address the styling issues. Please bear with me

A great example of how this month of blog posting is spawning great content on the interwebs. Other Eric posted a gems of python post, in which he ...

Big list of Django tips (and some python tips too)

2008 October 05

We were talking about things that we wish we had known before while developing for Django the other day in IRC. I proclaimed that we should write them down somewhere. So I'm writing a post to get this effort started. Please feel free to leave comments with your own ...

Getting started with Pinax

2008 September 18

NOTE: This content is a little out of date. Some of the layout might be wrong, but the ideas are still relavent.

I went ahead today and figured that I would try out Pinax, seeing as it's been getting a lot of good press in the ...